POSTAL SERVICE--CALIFORNIA--BISTORY.
Book Club of California, San Francisco. Early California mail bag. (Editors: Edgar B. Jessup, M. C. Nathan, and Henry H. Clifford. San Francisco, 1960.
12 folders. port., facsims. 26cm. ,Jts Keepsake series, Issued in a case,
ConTents.—no. 1. The 40c rate period to California: the “stamp- less” covers, by B. C. Pearce.—no. 2. Adams & Company, first large or- ganized western express company and its successors, by M. C. Nathan.—no. 3. Samuel W. Langton, California’s greatest independent expressman, by M. C, Nathan.—no, 4, Pioneer expressmen: Hunter & Co,’s Express, Everts & Co.’s Express, and successors, by H. H. Clif- ford.—no. 5. Todd, Reynolds, and related companies, by H. H. Clif- ford.—no. 6. Gregory’s Express, Berford & Co.’s Express, by H. H. Clifford.—no. 7, The pony express, by E. B, Jessup.—no, 8. Overland
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